Second Massachusetts city to recognize polyamorous relationships
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Cambridge, Massachusetts has redefined domestic partnerships to give relationships involving more than two people the same rights as a married couple.
Home to Harvard University, Cambridge is the second city in the state, after its neighbor Somerville, legally to recognize polyamory.
During a March 8 meeting, the Cambridge city council voted to redefine “domestic partnerships,” which previously had been defined as two unmarried people living together.
The new definition broadens the definition to “two or more persons” not related by blood who “are in a relationship of mutual support, caring and commitment and intend to remain in such a relationship” and “consider themselves to be a family.”
Catholic scholars, including Professor Robert George of Princeton University, have said in recent years that redefining marriage could lead to a collapse of the term altogether, with people questioning why marriage requires exclusivity, permanence, and sexual fidelity.
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